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I am working on a project at the moment on poverty and the visual rhetor.— Lee's Second Life - "Finding the key"
Cicero at the time of the delivery was distracted and said almost nothing 160] See the "Dialogue of the Orators," attributed to Tacitus 161] The word "rhetor" signified in Greek simply orator; the Romans used the word in a mistaken sense to designate the men who made a profession of speaking 162] The same reserve must be maintained with regard to the arts as to the literature.— History Of Ancient Civilization
A rhetor was one who was a master of style.— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
Alexius Comnenus, however--for it was the Emperor himself-- knew Agelastes, though rather from his stature and gestures, than his countenance; and could not forbear whispering in his ear, as he passed, the well-known lines, to which the pretended sage's various acquisitions gave some degree of point Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus; omnia novit Graeculus esuriens in caelum, jusseris, ibit."— Waverley Novels — Volume 12
I have burnt all their trees, I have pillaged all their temples, and even to the death of their grandchildren's grandchildren Why, you disclaim like a rhetor!"— Salammbo

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